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  Inequality in Latin America: processes and inputs

  Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2003

  This paper analyses the multidimensional aspects of inequality by discussing the concept of inequality along three types of processes:economic, social, and political, and three different dimensions: regional, rural/urban and across population groups.
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  Labor market regulations and income inequality: evidence for a panel of countries

  2004

  This paper presents evidence on the impact of labour regulations on income inequality using two recently published databases on labour institutions and outcomes (Rama and Artecona, 2002; Botero, Djankov, La Porta, López-de-Silanes and Shleifer, 2003) and different cross-section and panel data analysis techniques for a sample of 121 countries over the 1970-2000 period.The authors find:de
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  Pro-poor growth: a review of what we know (and of what we don't)

  World Bank, 2004

  Over the past few years pro-poor growth has become a very popular topic among development practitioners. This despite the fact that in many cases we do not even know what other people mean by pro-poor growth. Is it growth that leads to income redistribution or instead growth that leads to poverty reduction? More importantly, what do we know (and what we don't) about how we can achieve it?
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  A macro policy for poverty eradication through structural change

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper aims to shift the focus of development policy by relocating poverty eradication processes within the growth sector. It also emphasises the need to empower the poor to participate in the market on equitable terms as the privileged segments of society.
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  Dimensions of poverty in post-apartheid South Africa 1996-2001

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  This survey of poverty in post-apartheid south Africa defines and examines poverty in the South African context. The aim of this report is to provide a picture of asset and services deprivation, economic activity, and health and safety, and to illustrate and crime.
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  Globalization, poverty, inequality, and insecurity: some insights from the economics of happiness

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper looks at the relationship between globalisation, poverty and inequality by subjective well being or happiness studies, as well as the literature on the economics of happiness.The studies in Latin America and Russia examine how the dynamics of poverty and inequality affect well-being.
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  The rise or fall of world inequality: a spurious controversy?

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper explores the divergence of opinion on whether inequality in the world is rising or falling. The authors here attempt to pinpoint what drives the two extreme positions apart.
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  Income risk and welfare status of rural households in Nigeria: Ekiti state as a test case

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper examines the impact of income risk on the level of well-being of rural households in Nigeria. Income risk is defined as the risks associated with variability in income; well-being is defined in terms of the level of utility reached by a given individual. This level is a function of goods and services that the individual consumes.
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  The impact of inequality in Latin America

  Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2004

  This paper argues that development policies in Latin America (and in other developing regions) should focus not only on eliminating poverty and deprivation but also on preventing and reducing economic, social and political inequalities.
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  Poverty studies in Peru: towards a more inclusive study of exclusion

  Economic and Social Research Council, UK, 2003

  This paper presents an overview of published literature on poverty and related concepts in Peru. Its goal is to facilitate a broader, interdisciplinary understanding of poverty, while also exploring discipline-specific and local understandings.

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